Curtain-slat



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' No, 237,807. Patented Feb. 15,1881.

- fat? I I I UNITE STATES FFICE.

PATENT 0 CURTAIN-SLAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,807, dated February 15, 1881.

Application filed November 4, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAUNGEY BUCKLEY, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Inlprovenients in Curtain-slats; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view, Fig. 2 end view, Fig. 3 modification, Figs. 4, 5, and 6 sections, of the slat, showing its construction and attachment to the curtain.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of attaching the weight to curtainslats, and also to the method of attaching the slat to the curtain.

Various devices have been made to weight the curtain in that class of fixtures in which the curtain is drawn up by a spring and held at any desired position,the weight counterbalancing the spring, and the class of fixtures commonly called balance fixtures.

The object of this invention is to apply the weight to an exposed slat-that is, one which is not inclosed in the pocket in the curtain and so as to be an ornament to the curtain; and the invention has for its further object to attach the curtainto the round slat without a pocket in the curtain or without permanently attaching it to the slat; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A is a slat, made cylindrical. A pair of thin sheet-metal plates, B B, are made, the upper part of each to close upon opposite sides of the slat, as seen in Fig. 2, the lower part in shell shape and so that when the two parts are placed one upon one side and the other upon the other side the edges below will come together and form a poeket,'as seen in Fig. 2. The edges may be secured together, or a screw or rivet may be introduced through the upper part into the slat, which will secure each part in its position with the edges below together, as in Fig. 2. The weight is placed within the pocket, and may be strips of lead, shot, or other material, which will be easily adjustable (No model.)

as to quantity, or, the weight being known, may be a solid piece of proper shape to lie in the pocket.

The exposed surface of the pocket and the clasp upon the wood may be ornamented, or of any desirable ornamental shape, and which, if properly applied, adds a pleasing ornament to the curtain.

Instead of makin g thepocket below, the parts B B may be inverted and extend up onto the curtain, as in Fig. 3.

On the lower edge a loop, a, is formed as a part of the pocket, to which the cord or tassel may be attached.

To prepare the slat for the attachment to the curtain, Ifirst construct the slat in accordance with the patent granted to me for boring Wood cylinders, dated December 18, 1877, No. 198,344-that is to say, I first cut a groove, 9?, from the surface of the cylinder radially inward to the center, or the depth required, the bottom of the groove forming one-half of the hole to be leftin the slat. Then into the groove I place a strip of wood, 6, Fig. 5, the inner edge of which forms the other half or opposite side of the hole, and, glued into the groove, leaves the slat with a perfect hole, f, from end to end. This is the invention secured by my said patent. I now take this slat having the hole f thus formed longitudinally through it and cut a groove, h, from the surface radially inward to the hole less in width than the diameter of the hole, but at least of a width corresponding to the doubled or two thicknesses of the curtain. I then place a cord, 2', across the curtain, near its edge, and double the end of the curtain over the cord. as seen in Fig. 6. Then pass the doubled end of the curtain longitudinally into the groove 71. of the slat, the part inclosing the cord passing into the hole f, and, because the cord enlarges or thickens that part of the curtain within the hole, it will cause the end of the curtain to be retained within the slat; but when desirable it may be removed by simply drawing the slat from the curtain.

Instead of a cord a wire or reed may be introduced to good advantage, or the enlargement may be otherwise produced, it only being essential that there shall be an enlargement at the lower end of the curtain to make it thicker than'the groove, but so as to lie in the hole below the groove. By the term inclosed cord, therefore, I wish to be understood as including any such enlargement.

I do not broadly claim a weight permanently attached to the slat of a curtain, as such Iain aware is not new.

I am aware that a weight has been suspended for counterbalancing the curtain, and such weight made hollow for the purpose of introducing a variable amount of material for adjusting the weight, and therefore do not broadly claim such a weight.

I claim-- 1. A curtain-weight pocket consisting of a metal shell with extensions for attachment to the curtain-slat, the said shell fitted to receive and inclosc the weight, substantially as described.

2. The method herein described of making curtain-slats for attachment of the curtain thereto, which consists in cutting a longitudinal groove from the surface inward, of a width corresponding to the diameter of the longitudinal hole to be produced then filling the groove, so as to leave the required longitudinal hole, then making a second longitudinal groove extending from the surface of the slat into the hole, but lessin width than the diameter of the hole, substantially as described.

3. As an article of manufacture, a curtain slat constructed with a longitudinal groove from the surface inward, of a width corresponding to the longitudinal hole to be produced, said groove being partially filled, so as to leave the hole required, and a second longitudinal groove extending from the surface of the slat into the hole, butless in Width than the diameter ot' the hole, substantially as described.

OHAUNCEY BUCKLEY.

\Vitnesses:

JOSEPH H. BEcKE'rT, RALPH A. PALMER. 

